Citizen of Africa: Conversations with Morgan Tsvangirai

The leader of Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change has been demonised as a man who wants to deliever his country into neo-colonial vassalage by President Robert Mugabe. In and out of prison(under white Rhodesian and Marxist Mugabe regimes) Tsvangirai is seen by many inside and outside Africa as the one man who can save Zimbabwe from collapse and chaos. What are his ideas and programs? Dr Stephen Chan, a respected African researcher with many Zimbabwe connections,discusses the man and the country in this monograph.

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Page 13This provides a further affinity between ZANU-PF and the ANC of South Africa:
both see themselves as the successful victors in a liberation struggle — even
though, in both cases, negotiation was finally as important as violent struggle.

Page 37The moment the trade union movement tried to define its autonomy, outside the
control of ZANU-PF, it became excluded from national projects, from government
confidence, it became something labelled as alien to the liberation struggle.

Page 38The term "essence of the nationalist struggle" and the statement that this essence
originated with the labour movement is ... The liberation struggle waged against
the white settler state of Rhodesia in the 1970s was the second chimurenga.

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About the author (2006)

Professor Stephen Chan is a well known African expert and Dean of Law at London University's School of Oriental and African Studies. This work is the first extensive series of interviews with Morgan Tsavangirai,the major opposition leader in Zimbabwe.